The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-06

1atner nad every rfght 10 90 as ne CHOSE
with his fortune By his fathers last test
ament the choice Of adding to his two sis
ters' dover was distinctly left In his own
hands. II they married In defiance Of his
wishes they had no right to expect an ex-
ira fnrthing. Il is as much yours rs II you
had been his very own child. Now, don't
let this discovery, which need travel no
farther than ourselves, trouble you"
very easy injunction that, but one
totally impracticable, as so many more
given by outsiders to mental and physical
patients Shocked and distressed one mo-
ment, indignant at the long deception prac-
ticed on her, angry with him who had ini-
tiated it, the next blaming herself poign-
antly for daring to think Ill of her imagined
father, her unquestionable benefactor,
Honoria drove back to Dernside in a whirl
Of emotion, that made her pretcxt OF over
fatigue no mere excuse for not joining the
party downstairs at dinner, or after on the
moon-lit lawn.
"My head does ache so," she said to anx-
ious Mrs. Crosbie, who hastened to her, ~
am best alone"
"But we are all so sorry" answered her
| friend-"be better; quite yourself to-mor-
row, dear. Hubert Grahame said how pale
| you looked when he passed you in the ave-
nue. He-we shall all miss you so.'
| Another curious pang shot through the
girl at this. The Hubert Grahame that
Mrs. Crosbie spoke of was a young sur.
| geon, a good friend to Jack Crosbie, who
had lately gone up to the London hospitals,
and had thence written u few weeks before
to his mother:
"Grahame Is capital fellow. Hc has
kept mo out of scrapes no end. He's been
taking double duties; think his people are
poorish, and he's hippcd now and done up
with overwork, so want you to ask him to
Dernside for good long WHILE"
| To Dernside, accordingly, the young man
had come, surprised when it was the Hal
and not the Rectory, where he was to be
located, and treating Miss Wentworth
when he met her, with a reserved courtesy
which she had fancied due to shyness, ant
had taken pleasure in breaking down by s
frank kindliness peculiarly her own.
That was a dangerous experiment. Al
times, Hubert Grahame fell under the fas
cinations Of Honorias charming manners
at others he would keep aloof, marking by
some few little words, perhaps, the differ
ence between him, young unpropertiet
professional man, ana her, the owner o.
| Dernside. Whether he cared for her a:
(alas, poor rich girl y she grew to care fol
him, she hardly knew; now in her new
dilemma she tried to persuade herself hi.
| liking was only that of friend; then, wha
she had to do would not hurt him as it mus
hurt her.
For, while she lay awake that night, ant
through the next day when she kept to hel
own rooms, Honoria found what lay before
her, in justice to her so-called fathers kin
dred, in justice to herself.
Those women, fighting and fencing
through the world for their children's sake
should find rest and relief at last. Sh,
must take her turn at life's shadier sid,
now. Ease was delightful, wealth wa
natural to her, but she must have done will
these. And should she (there lay the stin,
that made her shudder SOY must she hav,
done with something else, new to her hopes
sweeter than both9 Would that, too, follow
in the track of all her other richest
Fair and slender and girlish as Honori,
seemed, there was plenty Of courage in he
composition. The second morning afte
that Transforming mystery had burst OF
her she wrote two woletters-onet to Mr.. Dean
the other to "Geraldine Corbette," the sis
ter whose entreaties Mr.. Wentworth ha,
answered in the negative"-then, witt
sketching-block in hand, she went fort
from the house. dreading and yet desirin
to face the hardest piece Of work necessit
forced on her.
The younger Crosbes were playing O
the lawn, olamoring loudly that they wer
SO glad that she had come out agair
Swinging pair Of them in q hammoc
stood Hubert Grahame, watching her, sh
knew, as she passed through the garden
down the foot-p path to the gray wall by tn
stream, where she so often sat- Would
follow her, as he so often did? No: tn
young man was turning indoors, with
sigh and few words to his hostess, whic
he felt impelled then and there to utter.
"My holiday ought to be up, Mrs. Gro.
; bic. must be leaving you directly"
To which the lady, covertly amused, fc
she fancied she read through the youn
peoples secret, and wished her rich gi
friend no better husband than this youn
, man, poor though he was, answered d.
murely:
"Well, we'll, you're not in such hurr.
are you, that you can not spare
little while to shelter Miss Wentwort
, from sunstroke! Here''--catching up
! Japanese umbrella-'hold this over he
pray, while she paints, and we will tai
about your departure ut lunch time" s
not to be churlish, Mr.. Grahame was force
to act on her suggestion.
But he went reluctantly, such mixtul
Of feelings seething within him as mac
him strangely uncompanionable, even whe
he reached the spot where the arti
worked; and she, embarrassed more sore
than he suspected, was very silent, to
r For minutes, that seemed an hour to bot
! she sedulously painted on at the view
fore them-the river, the woods, her hom
, standing in stately comfort among cluste
t of beech and pine-then, said he, with
. curious hard ring in his voice:
l show is it, Miss Wentworth, that 70
8 having the substance of these good thing
t desire the shadow alsol Is not the bett,
Q part enough for you"
Now was her opportunity, but 81
!, trembled as she seized it. Drawing bat
near him, but standing so that he could n
9 see her face, she answered:
81 am wanting the shadow, Mr.. Graham
i because"-for an instant she faltered-"b
cause the substance, as you call it, is mil
2 no longer"
q He looked towards her in mute astonis
v ment, inclined to spring over the interve
Q ing barrier, to see if her features told hi
8 what she meant more plainly than b.
u words.
o ''Yours no longer" he repeated, blankl
: "Miss Wentworth, don't understand 20
i Who can take Dernside from youl"
: ''No one, perhaps" she answered, h
3 voice calm, though her heart beat fas
"But can put it from me- Mr.. Graham
: YOU shall be the first to know what, in
r day or two, the whole place will be wonde
ing over. Mr.. Wentworth was not n
d father. I am only an interloper Mt Der
8 side. His closest kindred ought to be he
instead Of me. And here little while,
t trust, will see them. l will not, can n
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